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Ayers talks and stresses how education is constantly changing and will continue to do so and that teachers should evolve with the time. Bill Ayers uses this book to inspire future teachers through his personal experiences. In Chapter One Bill Ayers mainly focused on differentiating what people thought about teaching versus what actually was, he title this “Popular myths about teaching”. While reading this chapter I found it interesting because to me the myths were more like stereotypes of teachers.

Danielson’s framework and the High Schools That Work (HSTW) have countless interesting factors in common. If put together, I am confident we could create a framework that would definitely revitalize, our educational system. These two frameworks both have interesting points to add and by putting them both together, we could create a new framework that focuses on the key aspects of teaching and which will have a positive impact in our educational system.

Jimmy Santiago Baca is a prime example of the impact that can be extracted from a strong and caring passion towards an education. Baca was passionate in learning how to read when he was in prison, and he eventually achieved that goal. With his passion fueling his career, Baca would go on to become a poet, writer, and education activists for diverse classrooms. Baca is fueled by improving the conditions of those who feel like they have hit rock bottom like he once was. Several books were written from Baca’s backstory in hopes that people would learn from his mistakes and lessons learned within his lifetime. One of the subject areas that Baca has spent a good amount of his life promoting and discussing is the importance of education. Baca wrote a collection of stories that showed his experiences where people attempted to keep him down, but Baca’s drive to continue to expand and learn prevented him from staying down. This collection of stories is called “Stories from the Edge,” and Baca decided to add something extra with this book. He decided to go into a classroom with diverse students and he shared his stories from the book in greater detail. There were open discussions with the students about how his stories related to the students lives. After the student group left, Baca met with the teachers that aided with the student interaction, and they discussed the teaching methods that fuel the students motivation to learn. Jimmy Baca clearly is passionate in aiding individuals

The contemporary education raises a number of challenges in face of educators, which they have to overcome to make the education process effective. In this regard, Brighouse distinguishes the diversity of the contemporary society and learning environment and the lifetime learning as the major issues that educators should address in their work with students.

The issue of teacher shortage today is continuing to grow. The effects of the achievement gap are reaching the teachers, not just the students: “...good administrators and teachers, who are doing their best under difficult circumstances, will be driven out of the profession…,” (Boyd-Zaharias 41). The achievement gap is part of the reason teachers feel they are underpaid, which happens to be one of the leading cause in teacher shortage considering, “Teachers were paid two percent less [than comparable workers] in 1994, but by 2015 the wage penalty rose to 17 percent,” (Long). Being a teacher requires passion in order to stay in the field, especially if the money in teaching is decreasing. Money is an important aspect for people when it comes to their careers, therefore, fewer people want to become teachers. This lack of teachers and the lack of college students studying to become a teacher leads to unqualified teachers and larger classroom sizes (Ostroff). Both of these causes are eventually affecting students’ learning environments. I chose this issue in education for my project because I have personally felt these effects, and I know others who have as well. As a future educator, I want to see better wages and better benefits, but this can only happen with qualified, passionate teachers. I plan on being one of them, and I plan on sparking a change. I am a future educator fighting to end teacher shortage.

Our schools need to change, but who is going to initiate this change? Columnist Bob Herbert, in his article, “Our Schools Must Do Better,” makes the argument that the school system needs to change now if you want your children and their own children to have a fair chance in life. Herbert’s primary purpose is to persuade and convince the reader that our school systems needs to immediately change as delay will only serve to continue to promote low quality into the future. Herbert accomplishes this task through his caring and assertive tone. Using the reader’s personal experiences with the education system, Herbert establishes an emotional anchor point for reference and comparison as he delivers his argument for

“Tinkering Towards Utopia” examines the tension between the American school system, past and present. This article addresses the fact that if we only focus on change can cause us to ignore the stability in the school system. Instead of only focusing on changing the school system, we need to take the positive aspects already in place into consideration. If certain tactics are working, we should not change them. One of the points that I agree with the most in this article is that change where it counts the most, in terms of the interactions between teachers and students. We read that this is the hardest to achieve, but the most important. Achieving a good relationship with your student is important because you could be the one that changes

In Psychology 101, you learn about a personal fable; something that I have not lost. I have always wanted to change the world that I was destined for greatness and teaching elementary school students gives me that power. In the words of Nelson Mandela, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Where would we be without the teachers of the world? Young people across the world look to their teachers and instructors as role models, people to learn from and gain a broader knowledge of the world we live in. For many years, the teaching profession has been revered as a highly respected and widely sought after career, which provided instructors with a stable and supportive lifestyle. In recent years, the view of a teaching profession has changed in the eyes of prospective educators and this has left certain parts of the country scrambling to fill a wide array of teaching vacancies. These vacancies have had a severe impact on the qualifications and credentials which administrators are looking for to fill these positions, often times they’ve had to lower the standards required for full-time teaching positions just to find someone to work. This shortage of teachers is having a substantial impact on teaching districts around the country, as well as right here in North Carolina. While school administrators and education professionals understand the necessity of fixing the teacher deficit, the attempt to find a resolution to this dilemma has been futile for the most part. With this on going, decade long battle against nationwide teacher shortage, professionals in the field are still unsure how to resolve this issue. The teacher shortage in the United States has posed an issue for school districts across the nation, but as lawmakers continue to strip this once-respected

Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” . This statement is not unexpected because all trail blazers from our history books such Mandela, John F. Kennedy, and Theodore Roosevelt have addressed the importance of education. However, comparing how our politicians and governors treat education ,today to then, may leave our innovators of the past dissapointed. One of the elements of how we fail to put forth effort into making sure education is a priority is teacher income. Teacher’s salaries should be based on expertise, experience, and quality. Having better teachers will encourage students to think critically and inspire change, to thrive and succeed. A a a a a a a a a a a a a

He decided to pursue a career as a high school English teacher. He began his career teaching in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he taught for 6 years falling more and more in love with being an educator every day. While teaching, he pursued his master’s degree in educational leadership, and gradually took on roles within the school practicing leadership and curriculum development. It was there that he admits having his first real exposure to a melting pot of diversity both in his students, and his colleagues (personal communication, June 3, 2016).

Inside Teaching provides an up close and personal look into the realities of classroom life revealing the challenges teachers face daily in the pursuit of educating the nation’s children. It examines the efforts, expectations and failures of education reform. The book begins from the premise that while we seem to know (or think we know) what teaching looks like, we do not know why it looks this way. “Reforms typically fail, forcing us to acknowledge that although we know a lot about what teaching looks like, we know almost nothing about why it looks like this” (Kennedy, 2005 p. 1) In an effort to explore the why Kennedy hypothesizes that the failures are a result of a gap in understanding between reformers and teachers. She further asserts that this gap in understanding is predominately on the reformers side, although highly educated and committed teachers are held responsible for the failures. The inequality in assigning the responsibility or blame on teachers inspired Kennedy to write the book asking two fundamental questions: “Why, when American teachers are well educated, motivated, and provided with numerous resources professional development opportunities, are both they and reformers so often dissatisfied with their teaching practices? And why, when reformers have been laboring for decades to improve practice, have they been largely unsuccessful”? (p. 225)

The majority of the world’s population has the ability to attend school and receive an education. The educational system is currently designed to give students the best education possible while being enforced by well-educated teachers. As education progresses, it is important to look back and reflect on the how education is presented and how curriculums are taught through social, professional and political standpoints. There have been many educational philosophers and theorist throughout history and each have left their mark. However, there is one that stands out from the rest and he is John Amos Comenius.

Preparing teachers, principals and superintendents has been the responsibility of schools of education across the United States. Once they have completed their preparation these educators must tackle the challenge of educating America’s youth. Education is still a major factor in the social, psychological, and financial development of one individual; it determines the difference between a life fully lived and a life only dreamed of while opportunity passes by.

This included teaching at a Laboratory School, a Dean of the Graduate School of Education, and Director/Co-director of the Center for Educational Renewal. Goodlad is known for publishing influential models for renewing schools and teacher education. He authored or co-authored more than 30 books; wrote chapters and papers in more than 100 other books and yearbooks; and had more than 200 articles in professional journals and encyclopedias (Encyclopedia, 2007). He went on to become the Co-director of the Center for Educational Renewal where he created Centers of Pedagogy. His work centered on creating a working relationship between the School of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, and K-12 Institutions. His work included creating a teacher preparation curriculum that equipped teachers for subject matter delivery, inquiry, questioning, curiosity, and fostered a desire to learn new ideas (Goodlad, 1994). In Goodlad’s book, Educational Renewal, readers explore how he planned to transform the way universities prepare teachers.